Search results for "Western philosophy" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • system of thought by assimilating Western philosophy into the traditions ... issues in the fresh light of Western philosophy. Nishida's original ...
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  • of intelligence as a boy. He studied Western philosophy, such as Kant, as well ... and eventually arrived at a personal philosophy that combined Ramakrishna’s ...
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  • before his execution, is Consolation of Philosophy, which became one of the ... in prison, Boethius wrote Consolation of Philosophy, which later became one ...
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  • Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ... 1914, he switched to become professor of philosophy in Berlin. This change ...
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  • the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the authority ... and other forms of dualism. In Western philosophy, dualism usually refers ...
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  • rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century ... * Irwin, Terence. Classical Thought. A History of Western philosophy ...
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  • The book was first made available to Western scholars in Latin with the ... ===General Philosophy Sources=== *[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford ...
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  • historian. He studied and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, ... Imperial University with a degree in philosophy. For his graduation thesis ...
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  • modified Stoicism became the dominant philosophy in Rome and later influenced ... in which the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy, or ...
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  • and doesn't have to imitate and mimic Western institutions. The Russian ... his first extended critique of Western philosophy and values. ...
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  • Banyankore, Banyoro, Batooro and Bakiga of Western Uganda and also the Bahaya ... emphasized three maxims which shape the philosophy of Hunhuism or Ubuntuism: ...
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  • Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...
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  • regeneration. He believed that Western philosophy and civilization had ... of little interest to contemporary Western philosophy, involving himself ...
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  • self-identity as the first principle of philosophy. In other words, Parmenides ... effects on the subsequent history of Western philosophy. ...
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  • with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... Similar concepts are found in non-western traditions, such as Dao ...
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  • discussion group in the history of Western philosophy after Plato's ... the most important turning point in Western philosophy. In that year Schlick ...
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  • and presented it to his disciples. "Western Inscription" was originally ... chapter, and were titled "The Western Inscription" and "The ...
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  • and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...
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  • Thomas Aquinas in the shaping of Western attitudes towards faith ... affairs. Siger’s importance to philosophy lies in his acceptance ...
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  • الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized version ... consistently tried to demonstrate that philosophy is compatible with orthodox ...
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  • father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy drew upon a mystical element ... Plotinus took up the study of philosophy at the age of twenty-seven ...
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  • Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending ... amount to a survey of nearly all of philosophy. A brief note must therefore ...
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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | ... developed a unique theistic existential philosophy. He began his career as ...
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  • one of the oldest and most continuous in philosophy. Some of Plato's most ... reason is that the very business of philosophy is to achieve knowledge ...
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  • the comparative study of Chinese and Western aesthetics. He was also ... which synthesized Schopenhauer’s philosophy of art with Daoism. His ...
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  • of the most prominent philosophers in western Europe (Descartes, Malebranche ... was an adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... as well the entire tradition of Western philosophy. His quest for a new ...
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  • the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University ... of plenitude” in the history of Western philosophy. Aristotle originally ...
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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = 19th-century philosophy | ... He abhored the rational religion of Western philosophy (for example, Immanuel ...
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  • over one hundred works on history, literature and philosophy. a more practical and realistic system of philosophy. He maintained all reality ...
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  • began as a reconciliation of the philosophy of the ancient classical ... Ockham. Scholasticism dominated European philosophy from the time of Peter ...
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  • The more current and Western traditional terminology meaning a particularly ... that originated in late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In music, the romantic ...
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  • of the most carefully scrutinized books in Western intellectual history. ... He was installed as a professor of philosophy at Coimbra, and later became ...
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  • the works of Democritus, he changed to philosophy and, according to Diogenes ... adopted a life of solitude from Oriental philosophy. Returning to Elis, he ...
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  • The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...
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  • ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy represents a Neoplatonism ... entities as in most modern Western philosophy; they are already connected ...
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  • ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...
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  • for one's parents and ancestors. In Western cultures, Judaism and Christianity ... ==Filial Piety and Western Culture== In the Hebrew and Christian traditions ...
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  • Stumpf to change his major toward philosophy and science. Brentano also ... at Gottingen, in the Department of Philosophy. There he met Wilhelm Weber ...
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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = Twentieth ... in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy ...
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  • The essentially devotional nature of Plotinus' philosophy may ... heaven with stars. Paracelsus's philosophy of correspondences was ...
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  • of an authentic self and society. In philosophy, the concept has also been ... although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...
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  • African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... The study of African philosophy was taken up by West African universities ...
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  • truths,” one arrived at through philosophy and science, and one arrived ... as if there were two truths, one of philosophy and another of faith. A ...
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  • region = Western Philosophy | era = Twentieth ... post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford ...
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  • Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... In ancient Greek philosophy a conflict arose between the Platonists ...
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  • Yak-yong's contribution to Korean philosophy. Eminent Korean Confucian ... the liberation of Korea in 1945 Western philosophy has prevailed and philosophy ...
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  • methods foreshadowed later developments of Western scientific medicine. He ... and wrote a number of works in philosophy. Unfortunately, those philosophical ...
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  • Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... most influential in the history of western philosophy. He used both the terms ...
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  • began to integrate concepts from Western philosophy as steps toward modernization ... began to integrate concepts from Western philosophy as steps toward modernization ...
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